To ask if most people under secondary mental health care have

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Have been inpatients in a mental health hospital?

I haven't been. Come fairly close once or twice though.

No. And not everyone who has been an inpatient goes to secondary care services.

It's not really recommend for certain mental illness.

What’s your real information need? Is it about accessing secondary care MH services?

I personally didn't get a place in the CMHT until after an admission due to lack of capacity in my area.

Is there a concern you have about secondary care?

No.

Why do you ask?

Lots of people under CMHTs have not been under inpatient care.

Every single person I've ever met who has a CTO has, at some point, been subject to a detention. This is more a scathing indictment of how exactly Care in the Community works in reality, versus how it was supposed to work in principle.

In so far as people who simply have ongoing contact with CMHT, no, certainly in my experience the vast majority have been parked there after therapy, or a referral from a GP, but have not necessarily ever set foot in a psychiatric hospital.